Plug-tobacco cutter.



H. H. SCHUTZ.

PLUG TOBACCO CUTTER. APPLICATION FILED lAN.27. I916.

Patented J an. 9, 1917.

A TTORNEYS HARRY HERMAN SCHUTZ, OF LOS LUNAS, NEW MEXICO.

PLUG-TOBACCO CUTTER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. 9, 1917.

Application filed January 27, 1916. Serial No. 74,632.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, HARRY H. SonU'rz, acitizen of the United States, and a resident of Los Lunas, in the countyof Valenciag and State of New Mexico, have invented new and ImprovedPlug-Tobacco Cutter, of which the following is a full, clear, and exactdescription.

Objects of my invention are to provide a cutter that may be cheaplyproduced in compact form to include a base plate having an ample area tofirmly support thereon a piece of plug tobacco, and also a knifeespecially adapted to cut a piece from the plug of tobacco.

The details of construction, arrangement, and operation of the partsconstituting my improved cutter are as hereinafter described.

Other objects and advantages of my im proved device will be understoodfrom the specific description following.

Reference is to be had to the accompany ing drawings forming a part ofthis specification in which similar reference characters indicatecorresponding parts in all the views.

Figure 1 is a perspective view of a cutter embodying my invention, theknife being shown raised; Fig. 2 is a perspective View of the cuttershowing the same in the lowered position after severing a piece from thetobacco plug; Fig. 3 is a transverse ver' tical section on the line 33,Fig. 2, showing a tobacco plug in position to be cut; and Fig. 4 is asimilar view with the tobacco plug removed.

In producing a cutter in accordance with my invention, a flat base plate10, of sheet metal, is provided, adapted to alford ample 40surface onthe upper side thereof to receive and support a piece of plug tobacco A.The

base is made generally of oblong form and may have the forward-endthereof rounded as at 10*. One corner of the plate 10 is upturned toprovide an upstanding hinge lug 11 to which the cutter, designatedgenerally by the numeral 12, is pivoted by a rivet 18, or the like, sothat the cutter may swing in a vertical plane toward and from the baseplate 10.

The cutter 12, like the base 10, is stamped pose.

, up from sheet metal and includes elements particularly adapting it forthe special pur- Thus, in cross section the cutter is made angular orL-shaped to constitute the vertical knife 14 and the integral back plate1 15 at right angles to the knife or substantially so. The position ofthe lug 11 is such as to cause the knife 14 to swing in a verticalplaneat such a distance from the adjacent longitudinal edge of the base10 as to sever a small piece a, Fig. 2, from the plug A at the end, whenthe knife is brought down parallel with the base 10.

The forward or free end of the knife 14 is bent laterally as at 16beneath the back plate 15, inward from the free end of the latter so asto brace and strengthen said back plate and serve also as a stop for thecutter when pressed down. In using the device, pressure is applied tothe broad back plate 15, thus forcing the knife down through the tobaccoplug and severing a piece of the same.

It will be observed more particularly from Fig. 4 that the lateral backmember 15, when the cutter is in the lowered position, eX- tends beyondor overhangs the adjacent edge of the base plate 10, by reason of whicharrangement the said edge of the base plate constitutes a gage for theplug and when the knife is lowered and the piece a severed the backplate will project sufficiently beyond the plug to be engaged by thefingers, and the knife thus be conveniently raised.

Having thus described my invention I claim as new and desire to secureby Letters Patent:

1. An improved cutter for plug tobacco comprising a flat metal base, onecorner of the same being upturned and constituting an upstanding hingelug, an angle iron outter consisting of a vertical knife member and alateral back member formed integrally, the said knife member beingpivoted at one end to said lug and its free end bent laterally beneaththe back member and inward from the free end of the knife, as and forthe purpose specified.

2. A tobacco-plug cutter comprising a sheet metal base plate adapted tosupport a tobacco plug, and a cutter hinged at one endto said base plateat the corner of the In testimony whereof I have signed my same, thecutter being'in the form of an name to this specification in thepresence of angle ironeandrpresenting .a vertical knife two subscribingWitnesses.

member and a lateral back member Which HARRY HERMAN SCHUTZ. is integraltherewith, the knife member be- Witnesses:

ing provided at its free end with a stop, as LOUIS B. HUNING,

and. for the purpose specified. PHILIP JAGETS.

Copies of'this patent may he obtained for five cents each, by addressingthe Commissioner of Patents. I

Washington, D. G.

